In an attempt to persuade Americans to make costly, burdensome transitions away from gas-fired appliances, activists are going beyond climate to sell their pitch. More effort has gone into the effects of gas-fired stoves on indoor air quality.
Using 2018 data, the aforementioned UCLA study suggests that switching all natural gas appliances to electric would result in 354 fewer deaths as a result of less indoor pollution. To be clear, cooking on electric stovetops and natural gas ranges both produce fine particulates that affect indoor air quality.
However, there are more practical alternatives than requiring homes to replace a perfectly functioning gas range. Using venting hoods and cooking on the back burner significantly reduce exposure.
Furthermore, there are public health risks to removing access to affordable, reliable energy.
According to a recent paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, cheaper home heating from natural gas when compared with electric heat is averting more than 10,000 winter deaths per year.
Specifically, the authors’ “empirical approach combines spatial variation in the energy source used for home heating and temporal variation in the national prices of natural gas versus electricity.”
“We find that a lower heating price reduces winter mortality, driven mostly by cardiovascular and respiratory causes,” they wrote.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/05...to-ban-natural-gas-appliances-is-wrongheaded/
Using 2018 data, the aforementioned UCLA study suggests that switching all natural gas appliances to electric would result in 354 fewer deaths as a result of less indoor pollution. To be clear, cooking on electric stovetops and natural gas ranges both produce fine particulates that affect indoor air quality.
However, there are more practical alternatives than requiring homes to replace a perfectly functioning gas range. Using venting hoods and cooking on the back burner significantly reduce exposure.
Furthermore, there are public health risks to removing access to affordable, reliable energy.
According to a recent paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, cheaper home heating from natural gas when compared with electric heat is averting more than 10,000 winter deaths per year.
Specifically, the authors’ “empirical approach combines spatial variation in the energy source used for home heating and temporal variation in the national prices of natural gas versus electricity.”
“We find that a lower heating price reduces winter mortality, driven mostly by cardiovascular and respiratory causes,” they wrote.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/05...to-ban-natural-gas-appliances-is-wrongheaded/